At this point I’m just going to accept I have an obsession. Impera was released today and I LOVE IT!! I’m going to listen to it again, in the meantime here’s a sketch I’ve been wanting to share with you for a while!

Erico “La Bestia” Morales (1969-2021) The first time I met Erico was on my first year of tattooing professionally. Our mutual friend Dennis (who is the guitar player for Dantesco) brought him to the studio to talk about his next tattoo, of course. I was a bit anxious about it, not gonna lie, you see he was already a legend in the metal scene in Puerto Rico. He was not at all what I was expecting, don’t get me wrong he was Metal as fuck, but he also had a calming presence and after a few minutes of talking I knew I had a new friend. Fast forward a few months and tattoos were...

Imagine climbing a tall mountain and when you reach the summit, a red dragon is hiding in between the clouds.  This is it, you either let it consume you or you fight it and conquer that beast.  Dragon Encounter. Digital. This one is inspired by the Dungeons & Dragons game. It was one of my favorite games growing up and still to adulthood I played. It’s been a few years since I played and I miss it, I still buy the books and enjoy the art in them.

Going back to murky waters and what lurks in the deep darkness of our oceans. I really like tentacles and skull so most of the time that’s where I go to when I start sketching ideas, they come very easy. If I could, I would include tentacles and skulls to every design or drawing I make. I made this one around the same time I made Deep Encounters. I called this one The Old One and like the previously mentioned project it was inspired by Lovecrat’s work. The Old One

How vivid are your dreams? How clear do you see them? For me they are very clear, specially the bad ones. I’ve always had problems sleeping since I was very young. I’ve had this recurrent dream that involves a long narrow road, water on both sides and a giant wave that washes everything away. I have traveled that road several times, but I’m not going to talk about that this week, that’s a story for another day. Some of the nightmares are more vivid and clear than others, like when you experience sleep paralysis. I hear voices and see things in the darkness, right there in the corner...

I’ve been an X-Men fan since I read Days of Future Past in the early 90’s. I read a trade that my brother from another family had. Back then it was a bit difficult for me to get comics, luckily I had him to let me read his. It was him who introduced me to comics when he gave me my first Spider-Man comic, but that’s a story for another day. His favorite character was and I’m sure it still is Wolverine. Although I always gave him shit for liking him, I confess I secretly liked Wolverine too. He’s one of those characters I’ve always enjoyed reading and always enjoyed sketching....

The Deep Encounters series is inspired in Cthulhu, a fictional cosmic entity created by H.P. Lovecraft, but that part is common knowledge. I have this fascination with tentacles and giant creatures and knowing that the vast majority of our oceans hasn’t been explored gets my imagination in gears about the cool things, scary things we can find down there. “Deep Encounter I” I’ve never been diving before, but it’s something I would love to do soon. Now, imagine you’re diving one day and out of the deep dark giant tentacles reach out to you... “Deep Encounter II” “Deep...

I made this a little over a year ago, but it wasn’t until last October that I added colors digitally. The original drawing is an ink drawing on paper. During my teen years I spent a lot of time at church, huge Catholic Church in my home town and always thought it was funny when I saw a nun or a priest smoking.

During the 90’s Image Comics revolutionized the industry by doing what at that point, was thought impossible, going against the 2 big ones (DC and Marvel). It was very exciting and entertaining. Some of the comics they published were amazing. One of them is Spawn. I’ve always wanted to draw that character, I still think he’s visually interesting and those first few issues were incredible. Here is a digital drawing I made a few weeks ago, when my friend CJ give me his copy of the book The Art Of Greg Capullo. I felt inspired and of course, had to make some art.

This piece is based on a good friend and artist, I asked him if I could use him for an idea I’ve had in my head for a while, but haven’t been able to capture it and he had the perfect picture for it. I’ve always like the idea that Death is just doing the job that needs to be done, but in fact does enjoy life and living. He also loves tacos.